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overquery

overquery verb: to ask too many questions.

Verb

overquery (third-person singular simple present overqueries, present participle overquerying, simple past and past participle overqueried)

  1. To ask too many questions.
    • Try not to overquery; resolve as many problems as you can, but query if there is any possibility that you have changed the meaning.1991, American Society for Microbiology, ASM style manual for journals and books, volume 1985, page 4
    • Beginning Rorschach examiners have a tendency to overquery. Believing that they need to see the response exactly as the examinee saw it, they continue to query until they can see the response the same way or until the examinee is unable to provide additional information.2016, Jessica R. Gurley, Essentials of Rorschach Assessment: Comprehensive System and R-PAS

Forms of overquery

third-person singular presentoverqueries
present participleoverquerying
past participleoverqueried
pastoverqueried

Origin of overquery

From over- + query.

Questions about overquery

What does overquery mean?
Overquery means to ask too many questions.
What part of speech is overquery?
Overquery is a verb.
What is the past tense of overquery?
The past tense of overquery is overqueried.

Words near overquery in the dictionary

  1. overquelled
  2. overquelling
  3. overquells
  4. overqueried
  5. overqueries
  6. overquery
  7. overquerying
  8. overquick
  9. overquickly
  10. overquiet
  11. overquietly

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